James R. Carroll | Lawmakers are still continuing to kick 'the can down the road'

Notes from Washington

2:09 AM,
Jan. 13, 2013

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As the fiscal-cliff crisis built and the end-of-the-year deadline was barreling down like an out-of-control locomotive, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell scolded Democrats for moving slowly on a solution.

"I'm concerned with the lack of urgency here," the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor on Dec. 30.

After he and Vice President Joe Biden two days later came together on a deal to end the crisis, McConnell urged all of Washington to get to work heading off the next crisis, which will be centered on raising the debt ceiling and addressing the automatic spending cuts that were ...